Guidelines for Scheduling in Primary Care under Different Patient Types and Stochastic Nurse and Provider Service Times: An Empirically Driven Mathematical Programming Approach

Guidelines for Scheduling in Primary Care under Different Patient Types and Stochastic Nurse and Provider Service Times

Scheduling in primary care is challenging because of the diversity of patient cases (acute versus chronic), mix of appointments (pre-scheduled versus same-day), and uncertain time spent with providers and nonprovider staff (nurses/medical assistants). In this paper, we present an empirically driven stochastic integer programming model that schedules and sequences patient appointments during a w...

A stochastic model for operating room planning under uncertainty and equipment capacity constraints

In the present economic context, the operating theater is considered as a critical activity in health care management. This paper describes a model for operating room (OR) planning under constraint of a unique equipment. At first level we schedule elective surgeries under the uncertainty of using a unique equipment. At the second level we consider emergency surgeries, and at the third le...

A multi-product vehicle routing scheduling model with time window constraints for cross docking system under uncertainty: A fuzzy possibilistic-stochastic programming

Mathematical modeling of supply chain operations has proven to be one of the most complex tasks in the field of operations management and operations research. Despite the abundance of several modeling proposals in the literature; for vast majority of them, no effective universal application is conceived. This issue renders the proposed mathematical models inapplicable due largely to the fact th...

Guidelines for Scheduling in Primary Care: An Empirically Driven Mathematical Programming Approach

A Mathematical Model for Operating Room Scheduling Considering Limitations on Human Resources Access and Patient Prioritization

Operating room scheduling is an important task in healthcare sector. This study proposes a Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) mathematical model for the scheduling of the operating rooms. In the presented model, apart from scheduling the patients’ surgery process, shifting of the medical staff is also carried out. The innovation considered in the proposed model is aimed at prioritizing...